Baby Armadillos

We got lots of armadillos here they can have. They’re a pest. Dig lots of holes in the gardens.

I don’t think that the armadillo is endangered…

Glad to hear that Nicaragua has all their other problems solved so we can worry about a few baby armadillos.

These Armored Possums don’t seem to be terribly endangered where I am now, but I do realize what might have caused them to cross the Mississippi River via Bridge just to be here, is the fact they were either outgrowing or being run out of their earlier habitat. Twenty years ago, Armadillos were rare east of the Mississippi.

The fact that you see more of an animal does not necessarily correlate with there being more, it usually means they are becming unusually nomadic because they are losing their old home.

Wow…. some very heartless people it seems.
I don’t like rabbits digging in my garden and eating my veggies, but I’d never even think twice about killing them. I just fenced in my garden so they can’t get in. Problem solved….

@LisaL
Armadillos will dig under the fence to get into a yard.

The are not endangered. From Wikipedia:

“The nine-banded armadillo [Dasypus novemcinctus] has been rapidly expanding its range both north and east within the United States.”

“The primary cause of this rapid expansion is explained simply by the existence of few or no natural predators of the armadillo within the United States, little desire on the part of Americans to hunt or eat the armadillo, and the animal’s high reproductive rate.”

“It is speculated that the northern expansion of the armadillo will continue until the species reaches as far north as Ohio, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey and all points southward on the East Coast of the United States.”

“Outside the United States, the nine-banded armadillo ranges southward through Central and South America into northern Argentina and Uruguay, where it is still expanding its range.”